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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

2012 Leaf Originals Wrestling Preview

Leaf will be releasing a new
wrestling set in July titled 2012 Leaf Originals Wrestling, The set is based on
the 1948 Leaf baseball set and every card will be signed on-card by the
wrestlers.

Some of the announced wrestlers:

Rowdy Roddy Piper

Iron Shiek

Ric Flair

Hulk Hogan

Bruno Sammartino

Scott Hall

Shawn Michaels

Jake the Snake Roberts

Bret Heart

Kevin Nash

Additionally there will also be
managers and other personalities tied to wrestling like:

Bobby Heenan

Pete Rose

If you are a wrestling
fan/collector this would seem like an awesome release, at $80/pack you get 5
on-card autographs of some of the best wrestlers to have ever stepped in to the
ring. The problem is that Leaf decided not to use a similar styling with the
players from the 1948 set but instead went the artistic route. No artists were
named but whoever did the work took some serious artistic licensing with the
cards. Some cards look ok like the Iron Sheik and Bobby the Brain Heenan but
Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash are horrible.

To add to the chase there will be
parallel versions, some as low as #1/1, as well as alternate art cards, which will also
have limited parallel versions. These are just early preview images so the autographs have not been signed yet, these are just mock-up autographs.

About Me

I started collecting as a kid but by the time I hit my teens my interests were elsewhere. I returned to the hobby in 1992, just in time to see the junk wax era go in to full swing. My collecting interests have changed over the past 25 years and I prefer to focus on just a couple of players.

My collection is very specific now because I want to keep it controlled and organized, I now focus mainly on my Ken Griffey Jr. & Jay Buhner collections.